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The legal teams of the House Intelligence and Foreign Affairs committees will convene Monday to discuss the possibility of subpoenaing the interpreters who attended Trump’s meeting with President Putin in Hamburg in 2017, according to a senior democratic aide cited in a Sunday report from ABC News. The aide, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, told ABC News that the Washington Post’s bombshell allegation that Trump took his interpreter’s notes after the meeting, leaving no detailed record of the world leaders’ conversation, “has changed the calculus.” “This raises a new host of questions,” the aide was quoted as saying. “We’re looking into the legal implications of that, and we'll discuss our options. Our lawyers are sitting down with intel committee lawyers to hash it out.” The source noted that this didn’t mean the committees would definitely issue a subpoena—only that they were considering how they would move forward if they chose to do so. House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff joined the call Sunday, tweeting “Last year, we sought to obtain the interpreter’s notes or testimony, from the private meeting between Trump and Putin. The Republicans on our committee voted us down. Will they join us now? Shouldn’t we find out whether our president is really putting “America first?”